Tencent, Trying to Tie All Its Products Together
Translated from Chinese by Claude. Read the original
People say Tencent is a bunch of bastards, but I don’t see it that way. All Tencent is doing is tying its own products together, and that’s actually a good thing. If you’d played every product and every game from every company out there, wouldn’t you have to remember the ID for each one, the password for each ID, and the security questions for each ID? That’s the benefit of bringing products together.
I don’t want to say too much about Tencent. Personally I think it’s way too flashy. Some things should be left for users to choose, not forced on them through hard selling and bundled installs. Hogging users’ desktops and grabbing market share by force is wrong~
Tencent is a double-edged sword: it can stab you, and it can also give you a hand up.
Last night we talked about QQ membership. I’ve been a QQ member for two years now, and QQ itself has only been around for 10 years. On top of that, right now you can only pay for QQ membership up to 2038 at the most. Heh, 2038 is still more than 20 years away. Who knows whether Tencent will keep growing in a healthy way, or whether it’ll get bought out. Will it be buying others, or will others buy it? Heh~ only heaven knows… haha
Tencent, Made In China!